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Weekly Contest #121
When my boyfriend Jeff and I returned from our third winter holiday with Gertrude in Acapulco, I was sick. At first, I thought it was a bad case of touristas even though I never had THAT before. We were always careful about what we ate. Never anything from a street vendor or some seedy restaurant. I immediately saw my internist, Dr. Oyer. He, himself wheeled me from his office to the hospital. He said perhaps I just needed fluids though he didn’t sound convincing. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a teaching institution which should e...
Weekly Contest #120
“Back in my day I was out four or five nights a week,” Bea wheezed through her portable oxygen tank. We sat on the terrace. Bea, Steven, and me. I positioned her in the shade as it was getting warm in the October desert sun. “Don’t ever get old, boys,” she reflected. “Old age isn’t for sissies.” How many times had we heard that line before? She uses it three or four times in every conversation, and we speak with her 4 or 5 days a week. “I hardly go to the club (her country club) anymore. It’s too difficult, you know. I cannot see. Some...
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